Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 15
... perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life , is always a child . In the woods is perpetual youth . Within these ...
... perfect exhilaration . I am glad to the brink of fear . In the woods , too , a man casts off his years , as the snake his slough , and at what period soever of life , is always a child . In the woods is perpetual youth . Within these ...
Page 18
... perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men appre- hend . The misery of man appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this ...
... perfect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men appre- hend . The misery of man appears like childish petulance , when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this ...
Page 53
... perfect . The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hy- pothesis of the permanence of nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand . It is a natural consequence of this struc- ture , that so long ...
... perfect . The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hy- pothesis of the permanence of nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand . It is a natural consequence of this struc- ture , that so long ...
Page 66
... perfect ; the other , incapable of any assur- ance ; the mind is a part of the nature of things ; the world is a divine dream , from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day . Idealism is a hypothesis to ...
... perfect ; the other , incapable of any assur- ance ; the mind is a part of the nature of things ; the world is a divine dream , from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day . Idealism is a hypothesis to ...
Page 77
... perfect without the other . In the uttermost mean- ing of the words , thought is devout , and devotion is thought . Deep calls unto deep . But in actual life , the marriage is not celebrated . There are in- nocent men who worship God ...
... perfect without the other . In the uttermost mean- ing of the words , thought is devout , and devotion is thought . Deep calls unto deep . But in actual life , the marriage is not celebrated . There are in- nocent men who worship God ...
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